aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Blogging at its best

Barbara O’Brien at The American Street on the Right’s excited allegations that Air America is stealing money from poor children and old sick people is an example of blogging at its very best.

In How To Fake News: A Primer she recounts the whole tale, tracks down all the links, and concludes:

But if you follow the links, what you find is that they’re all just linking to each others’ allegations, and the allegations are ultimately all based on the one, single, lamely substantiated source-Michael Horowitz of the Bronx News. [He got his information from “informed sources” of undetermined origin.]

The whole post is a must read. I hope the conservative bloggers are successful and they get the MSM to tune in.